Stop losing margin to demurrage, delays, and blind spots.
One live system for the whole trade. It flags the late ship, the off-spec cargo and the unhedged deal early, while you can still fix them.
Live in Switzerland. Over $4M in grain, energy and containers already traded.
You don't lose it on the price. You lose it on the details.
Every trade passes through a dozen hands. A ship, a cargo check, a hedge, a payment. Miss one and it costs you. You only see it after the deal is closed.
- Demurrage and detentionthe ship sat idle, free time gone−$6K
- Quality and quantity claimscargo came up short on spec or weight−$3K
- Unhedged currency and pricethe deal drifted before the hedge−$2.5K
- Typing it in by hand1–4% of entries come out wrong−$2K
- Books checked too latefound at month-end, too late to fix−$1.5K
The easy money is gone. Now you win by losing less.
Don't take our word for it. These are independent studies. Here's how much money quietly disappears when trades run by hand and on old software.
of spreadsheets have errors. And that's still what most desks use to price and reconcile trades.
Ray Panko, University of Hawaii
of everything typed by hand comes out wrong. On every trade, invoice and bill of lading.
Barchard & Pace, 2011
how far commodity trading profit fell in 2024, once the boom ended.
McKinsey, Oliver Wyman
how much unmanaged ship and container delays add to shipping cost.
Industry (NRF)
On its own, each loss is tiny. Together they add up to real money. When margins are thin, winning it back is easier than earning it again.
Different size. Same problem.
Move 10,000 tons or 10 million, the cause is the same. Your tools don't talk to each other. WardX fixes that for both.
Small and mid-size desksRun like a major, without hiring like one.
- Up and running in an afternoon. No ERP project, no IT team.
- One place watching demurrage, laytime and buyer risk.
- Live margin on every deal, not a month-end guess.
Large trading housesRetire the 18-month ERP.
- Models trained on your own trade history, live in weeks.
- One view of position and margin across every desk and region.
- Private setup, full audit trail, backed by an SLA.
From ten tools to one.
Today your trade lives in spreadsheets, chats and email. Nothing connects, and money slips through the gaps. WardX puts it all in one system, on one screen.
AI you can trust with a trade.
WardX runs its AI on your own data and checks every step. It's a full platform, not a chatbot bolted on top.
WardX Core
Runs checked AI steps on your own trade data.
Screens that build themselves
Every desk gets a screen made for its job and its market.
Early warning
Flags late ships, off-spec cargo and unhedged deals before they cost you.
Digital coworkers
Early accessAI agents take on finance, legal and logistics work.
Your ERP
Every step saves back here. One complete system.
Up and running in days, not months.
No 18-month ERP project. Bring the spreadsheets and PDFs you already use. WardX turns them into a working desk.
You bring your data
Drop in your trade book and your partner list. Spreadsheets, PDFs, whatever you have.
WardX builds your workspace
Your ledger, partners and trades wired together, set up the way your desk really works.
What's under the hood.
One system, split into modules. Each part maps to a real desk, and they all share the same data.
Platform core
The dashboard and analytics behind every part.
CRM
Your customers and partners.
Trade
Contracts and deals.
Logistics
Tracking shipments and routes.
Inventory
Stock and warehouses.
Execution
Live trade execution.
Finance
Payments and invoices.
HR
People and resources.
AI agents that do the busywork.
Specialized agents handle the repetitive back-office work behind every trade. Reports, compliance, logistics. Rolling out now in early access.
Finance agent
Reports and numbers
Legal agent
Contracts and compliance
Sales agent
Revenue and deals
Risk agent
Exposure and limits
Logistics agent
Supply chain
Market agent
Market intelligence
Finance agent
Reports and numbers
Legal agent
Contracts and compliance
Sales agent
Revenue and deals
Risk agent
Exposure and limits
Logistics agent
Supply chain
Market agent
Market intelligence
Where WardX is headed.
WardX runs real trades in Switzerland today. Here's how it grows into the layer that connects physical trade.
The longer game
Early accessTrust scores
Every trade builds a verified trust score for your partners. A reputation you can take to the market.
Smart, safe deals
Programmable contracts with automatic escrow, milestone checks and faster settlement.
One standard
A single protocol linking traders, logistics, insurers and financiers in one network.
Estimate what you're losing.
A rough estimate based on published industry figures. You set the numbers. It's not a WardX promise.
Estimated loss rate 0.6%. Independent research puts it around 0.3–1.0% of revenue for desks run on old or manual tools.
Illustrative only, not measured on your data. Ranges from published research on manual commodity work (McKinsey, Oliver Wyman, Panko).